If his body language was any indication, Tiger Woods might not have been happy with the state of his game following Wednesday's Memorial tournament pro-am at Muirfield Village Golf Club.

Before he left the 18th green, ropes were quickly stretched out to keep fans at bay, but Woods was still forced to walk through a tight and not always well behaved gauntlet. Woods signed a few autographs and quickly strode to the clubhouse without speaking to a small group of reporters.

NBA commissioner David Stern's remarks on "Rome" Tuesday night on CBS may be about as warmly received by players as NFL commissioner Roger Goodell's Bountygate suspensions were by the New Orleans Saints.

Asked whether the condensed schedule following the lockout has contributed to the rash of serious injuries, including the knee injury of Chicago Bulls' star Derrick Rose, Stern said (according to quotes distributed by CBS, "There is some part of it that may be related to that. I think some part of it is luck and some part of it is lack of preparedness by our players before the season began. It’s a combination of things.

Tiger Woods teed off at 1:25 p.m. today in the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, N.C., and Peter Kostis of CBS Sports sees this as a big week for Woods.

"If you take Bay Hill, where he won, and the Masters, where he played poorly, this week is kind of a rubber match," Kostis sad in a CBS e-mail. "It’s the rubber game of the three-game series to determine, in a lot of people’s eyes, which tournament was an aberration. Was it Bay Hill or was it Augusta? If he plays well this week, then Augusta was an aberration and his recovery is continuing on course. If he doesn’t play well, then his detractors especially are going to say that Bay Hill was a fluke.

The tragic suicide of San Diego Chargers great Junior Seau put in perspective any hand-wringing about the league’s Bountygate penalties, which ranged from a three-game suspension for Browns linebacker Scott Fujita to a full season for Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma.